English Translation

94 saw how dangerous it must be in the end, when the older generation, through a gentle gait of their youth, makes every idealistic young-fresh correction from the offspring and renounces the fruitful polarity between a demanding youth and a regulating age. Those Czech educators of that time also overlooked the fact that young people should not be placed in a position which should be overcome as quickly as possible by admission to adult society, but that years of young people are years of an educational task which can only be solved from the very nature of the youth and whose failure can no longer be achieved later. Thus the Czech youth had to become as it often gave us enough reason to marvel at the festivities in the years before and after 1939. Did the snobistic figures we know from the Prague streets as well as from the coffee houses of the Czech provincial towns live the style of a real youth? Why did they suppress the expression of their youthfulness in favor of an American and English film of affected laziness and salop elegance? Why did these young people, whether male or female in clothing, appearance, entertainment and behavior, try to fake the impression of the mature gentleman, or of the accomplished lady? Because nowhere was the style of a real Czech youth life visible, the Czech youth did not profess to be the essence of their generation, but succumbed not only to the political but also to the social level of an imitation of adults. If we find the lack of a kind-like young or girlish Czech education, then the question arises, why could the satations in the time of the R. The Zah and party-like education but already their external pen, which proved themselves up to in the D.T.J. = Dělnická Tělocvič in turn meaningful Czech youth of d and National-